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A PRELIMINARY OUTLINE 



COURSES OF STUDY IN AGRICULTURE 



MINIMUM OF REQUIRED EQUIPMENT 



FARM-LIFE SCHOOLS OF NORTH CAROLINA 



ISSUED FROM THE OFFICE OF 

STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 

RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA 



A PRELIMINARY OUTLINE 



COURSES OF STUDY IN AGRICULTURE 



MINIMUM OF REQUIRED EQUIPMENT 



FARM-LIFE SCHOOLS OF NORTH CAROLINA 



ISSUED FROM THE OFFICE OF 

STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 

RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA 



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PREFACE 

The law directs that the course of study and the equipment of all farm-life 
schools shall be subject to the approval of the State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction. I his bulletin contains the preliminary outline of courses 
of study in agriculture and the minimum of general equipment for these 
schools that will be approved by him. It also contains suggested additional 
equipment needed for work in the special departments and suggested text- 
books, reference books, and lists of books and bulletins for the library. 

It would be neither economical nor wise to start one of these schools 
without the minimum of equipment found by experience, by careful investi- 
gation, and by consultation with experienced teachers and experts in other 
schools of this sort to be necessary for the successful teaching and training 
required of such schools. Therefore the minimum general equipment con- 
tained herein together with the other equipment in buildings, laboratories, 
land, etc., designated in Section 4 of the law must be provided by each school 
before the State Superintendent will recommend the State apportionment 
by the State Board of Education for its maintenance. 

Some months ago I engaged Mr. E. A. Hodson, of the Department of 
Agriculture of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 
to take charge of the preparation of this bulletin. He has devoted his entire 
time during the summer to this work. In the preparation of the bulletin 
he has carefully examined the courses of study in similar schools in this and 
all other states; he has conferred with the members of the Committee on Vo- 
cational Education of the Department of High School Principals of the North 
Carolina Teachers' Assembly, receiving valuable suggestions and criticisms 
from time to time from the members of that committee; he has consulted 
experienced and successful teachers of agriculture and kindred subjects in 
this and other states; he made a special visit to Cornell University to get 
the benefit of the great library and the assistance of noted specialists in 
agricultural instruction there in the preparation of the courses of study and 
the compiling of the lists of the books and the suggested equipment. 

It is hoped that this bulletin will serve the purpose for which it has been 
prepared by rendering valuable assistance in properly equipping and in 
wisely arranging and directing the work of the farm-life schools of the 
State. Six of these schools were in operation last year and arrangements 
have already been completed for starting ten new schools of this sort in 
the State this year. It is exceedingly important that these schools should 
start right, be properly equipped, provided with thoroughly qualified and 
experienced teachers, and have their work shaped to meet the needs of 
country life and to prepare country boys and girls for making the most out 
of country life and country things. Upon the success of these schools 
depends the establishment of other schools of this sort in other counties 
of this State. Upon their success depends the success of this hopeful move- 
ment to adapt the work of the country school to the needs of the country 
people and to improve country life through the more efficient training of 
each generation of country children. 



The list of those who have rendered invaluable assistance in the prepara- 
tion of this bulletin is too long to enumerate. I desire, however, to make 
general acknowledgment here of grateful appreciation to all of them. 

A more complete bulletin containing more detailed outlines of the courses 
of study in the different subjects and many additional valuable suggestions 
is now in preparation. A bulletin on the work in Domestic Science and 
Household Economy will be issued later. 

Very truly yours, 

J. Y. Joyner, 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
Raleigh, N. C, August, 1914. 



PRELIMINARY OUTLINE 

OF 

COURSES OF STUDY IN AGRICULTURE 



The course in Agriculture, as suggested in the accompanying outline, 
comprises about one-half of the 16 units making up the four years' work. 
This is more work than one man will be able to teach but it is impossible to 
give less work in agriculture and the related sciences if these Farm-Life 
Schools are to serve the purpose for which they were established. The first 
years of the school will not have a full four-year course of study in agricul- 
ture which makes it possible for one man to handle the work at present. 

In buying the necessary equipment for the schools which are just being 
established, it will only be necessary to buy the apparatus needed to give 
the work of the first year, other equipment can be bought as it is needed the 
next year. 

The equipment as suggested in this outline is in most cases the minimum 
that should be purchased to attempt to give that course. Where apparatus 
is suggested that is not necessary at present it is marked *. The books for 
reference which are desirable but are not necessary at present, are also 
marked *. 

r l he prices given are catalog prices and in most cases there will be quite 
a reduction, especially if bought in quantities. 

Arrangements can be made to get Mr. D. T. Gray, of the N. C. Experiment 
Station, to buy the horses and cows needed for these schools, provided the 
schools which are going to get animals, will all buy at the same time. In 
this way, these animals may be bought at a much less figure than would be 
possible for the schools to buy them separately. There will be no charge 
for this service by Mr. Gray. 

The parallel reading courses, as indicated in the outline, are intended to 
cover some suggested text related to the subjects mentioned; assignments 
for reading are to be made and the class is expected to meet not less than 
eight times a year to discuss the subject read. This should apply to every 
student in the Farm-Life School. 

It is recommended that the teachers of Agriculture and Domestic Science 
be called together as a committee at the next meeting of the North Carolina 
Teachers' Assembly for the purpose of discussing the course in Agriculture 
which is now being outlined. 

Air. K. H. Mclntyre, of the Red Oak Farm-Life School, gave many valuable 
suggestions in arranging the # course of study and equipment, and suggested 
the parallel reading courses. 



Suggested Course of Study for the Farm-Life Schools of 
North Carolina. 



FIRST YEAR. 



Fall Term. 

English 

Arithmetic 

Physical Geography. 

Plant Life 

Mechanical Drawing 
Farm Carpentry . . . 



Periods per Week. 
Class. Lab. 
5 



Spring Term. 

English 

Arithmetic 

Poultry 

Plant Culture 

Mechanical Drawing- 
Farm Carpentry . . . 



Periods per Week. 
Class. Lad. 



Total 22 Periods. 

Parallel Reading Course: General Science. 



Total 22 Periods. 



SECOND YEAR. 



Fall Term. 

English 

Algebra 

History 

Farm Animals 

Biology and Physiology 
Vegetable Gardening . . 



Periods per Week. 
Class. Lab. 
5 



Spring Term. 

English 

Algebra 

History 

Dairying 

Biology and Physiology. 
Vegetable Gardening . . . 



Periods per Week. 
Class. Lab. 
5 



2 



Total 23 Periods. Total 23 Periods. 

Parallel Reading Course: A study of the social life in the country and 
organization of boys and girls clubs. 



THIRD YEAR. 



Fall Term. 

English 

Physics 

History 

Farm Crops 

Farm Accounting 

Mathematics 

Farm Carpentry . . 



Periods per Week. 
Class. Lab. 
5 



3 



and 



Total 20 Periods. 



Spring Term. 

English 

Physics 

History 

Farm Crops 
Fruit Culture . . . 
Farm Carpentry 



Periods per Week. 
Class. Lab. 
5 



Total 21 Periods. 



Parallel Reading Course: Rural Sanitation and water supply. 



FOURTH YEAR. 



Fall Term. 

English 

Soils and Fertilizers 
Rural Economics . . . 
Feeds and Feeding . 
Farm Machinery . . . 
Chemistry 



Periods per Week. 
Class. Lab. 
5 



Spring Term. 

English 

Soils and Fertilizers 

Mathematics 

Feeds and Feeding . 
Farm Machinery . . . 
Chemistry 



Periods per Week. 
Class. Lab. 
5 



Total 23 Periods. Total 

Parallel Reading Course: Community improvement. 



.23 Periods. 



Suggested Texts for Agriculture and Science Courses. 



Course. 


Year.' 


Term 


Text. 


Author. 


Publisher. 


Price. 


Physical Geography 


1st 


Fall 


New Physical 
Geography 


Tan- 


Macmillan 


$ 1.25 


Poultry 


1st 


Spring 


Farm Poultry 


Watson 


Mac mil Ian 


1.50 


Plant Life 


1st 


Fall 


Beginners Botany 


Bailey 


Macmillan 


.60 


Plant Culture 


1st 


Spring 


Principles of Plant 
Culture 


Goff 


Stechert 


1.00 


Mechanical Drawing 


1st 


Year 


Drawing Mechan- 
ical Series (books 
1-6; 


Thompson 


Heath 


.15 

(each) 


Farm Animais 


2d 


Fall 


Farm Animals 


Hunt & 
Burkett 


Orange-Judd 


1.50 






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Milk and Its 


Wing 


Macmillan 


1.50 


Dairying 


2d 


Spring ] 


Products 












I 


Testing Milk 


Van Slyke 


Orange-Judd 


1.00 


Biology and Physi- 


2d 


Year 


Animals and Man 


Kellogg 


Holt 


1.25 


ology 














Vegetable Garden- 


2d 


Year 


Vegetable Garden- 


Watts 


Orange-Judd 


1.75 


ing 






ing 








Farm Crops 


3d 


Year 


Field Crops 


Wilson & 
Warburton 


Webb 


1.50 


Farm Management 
and Accounting 


3d 


Fall 






















Fruit Culture 


3d 


Spring 


Popular Fruit 
Growing 


Green 


Webb 


1.00 


Physics 


3d 


Year 


First Principles 
of Physics 


Carhart & 
Chute 


Allyn & 
Bacon 


1.25 


Soils and Fertil- 


4th 


Year 


Soils and Fertil- 


Snyder 


Macmillan 


1.50 


izers 






izers 








Rural Economics 


4th 


Fall 


Rural Economics 


Carver 


Ginn 


1.30 


Feeds and Feeding 


4th 


Fall 


Principles of 
Feeding 


Burkett 


Orange-Judd 


1.50 


Farm Machinery 
Chemistry 


4th 


Year 










4th 


Year 


Chemistry of 


Brownlee and 


Allyn & 


1.25 








Common Things 


others 


Bacon 





Library Suggestions. 

The school should receive the Monthly List of Publications by the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, the Farmers' Bulletins, and requests should be 
made for a list of available publications. Address request to Division of 
Publications, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. The 
schools should request that their names be put on the mailing list of the 
North Carolina Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C, and also the North 
Carolina Experiment Station, West Raleigh, N. C, to receive free publications 
from these Departments. 

Some means of filing the bulletins belonging to the School should be 
provided. Pamphlet holders may be bought for $7.00 per hundred from the 
Jesse Jones Paper Box Co., Philadelphia, or very serviceable pamphlet 
holders may be made from heavy cardboard by the mannual training class, at 
much less cost. 

Book shelves or cases should be made by the manual training class. 

Suggestions and specifications for such cases will be furnished later if 
possible. 

List of Miscellaneous Books that Should Be In the Library. 

■ Titlr. Author. Publisher. Price. 

*Encyclopedia of Agriculture. Bailey Macmillan $20.00 

Farmers' Cyclopedia of Agri- 
culture Wilcox & Smith Orange-Judd .... 3.50 

Farmers' Cyclopedia of Live 

Stock Wilcox & Smith Orange-Judd 4.50 

Principles of Rural Economics Carver Ginn 1.30 

Landscape Gardening Waugh Orange-Judd 50 

Farmers' Manual of Law . . . Willis Orange-Judd .... 2.00 

Farm Management Warren Macmillan 1.50 

Farm Sewage Santee Orange-Judd 50 

Bacteria in Relation to Coun- 
try Life Lipman Macmillan 1.50 

Materials and Methods in 

High School Agriculture. . Hummel Macmillaa 1.23 

Chemistry and Its Relation to 

Daily Life Kahlenburg & Hart. . . Macmillan 1.25 

Miscellaneous Suggestions. 

A rubber stamp outfit should be provided for marking stakes in the field 
work. The value of field work depends largely upon the labeling of varieties 
of crops and experiments. Stakes 4 inches wide, % inch thick, and 2 feet 
long from dressed boards, make the most convenient size. 

Interesting exhibits may be obtained from several manufacturing com- 
panies without cost. The Postum Cereal Company, Ltd., Battle. Creek. Mich., 
will gladly give a cereal exhibit for the asking. 

An exhibit of corn products may be obtained from the American Manufac- 
turers' Association of Products of Corn, 1236 First National Bank Building, 
Chicago, 111. 



An exhibit of cattle products may be obtained from Morris & Co., Union 
Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. 

The De Laval Cream Separator Co., New York, N. Y., will allow the Farm 

Life Schools a substantial discount upon separators by an agreement which 
has been arranged. 

General Equipment fob School Farm. 

One barn $600.00 

Two work animals (mares) 500.00 

One two horse wagon ■ 65.00 

One two horse turn plow 8.50 

One disc harrow 25.00 

One drag harrow 12.00 

One weeder 7.00 

One cultivator 35.00 

One combination planter 15.00 

One single shovel plow 3.00 

One double shovel plow 5.00 

One set of two horse harness 25.00 

Twelve hoes (gooseneck) 9.00 

Six rakes ( garden ) 4.50 

Two hay forks 1.50 

One platform scales (merchants) 15.00 

'i wo shovels 2.00 

One mattock .75 

One scythe 1.50 



Total $1,334.75 

*One mower $45. ?0 

*One hay rake (one horse) 20.00 

*One gasoline engine (4 horse) 125.00 

PLANT LIFE. 

Title. Author. Publisher Price. 

Text: 
Beginners' Botany Bailey Macmillan $.60 

References: 

Experiments with Plants. ..Osterhout Macmillan 1.25 

Equipment: One microscope, double nose piece, 4 and 16 mm. objectives, 
7.5 times ocular, $27.00 

Practically no other equipment will be necessary for this work. The experi- 
ments that are practical for the course may be performed without any special 
apparatus in most cases. The apparatus in the chemistry equipment may be 
used whenever necessary. 

If small hand lenses are found necessary the student may be required tu 
purchase these for his own use. 

This course is expected to give an understanding of the relations of the 
plant to the soil, air and water; the structure of the plant; man's dependence 
upon plants; and, it possible, some work should be given in identification of 
plants. 



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PLANT CULTURE. 

Title. Author. Publisher Price. 

Text : 

Principles of Plant Culture. Soft' Stechert $1.00 

References: 

*Propagation of Plants Fuller Orange-Judd 1.50 

Nursery Book Bailey Macmillan 1.50 

Equipment : 

Seeds. 

Plants: Apple, peach, grape, etc. 

Bulbs. 

Hoes and rakes (general equipment). 

Seed testing boxes (to be made by students). 

Grafting wax $-50 

Grafting and budding tools -75 

Total $1.25 

The different methods of propagation of plants, transplanting, and general 
considerations as to culture, care and management of garden and field plants 
will be presented in this course. 

POULTRY RAISING. 

Title. Author. Publisher Price. 

Text : 
Farm Poultry Watson Macmillan $1.50 

References: 

*How to Keep Hens for 

Profit Valentine Macmillan 1.50 

♦Poultry Breeding Miller-Purvis Sanders 1.50 

*Turkeys and How to Grow 

Them Myrick Orange-Judd .... 1.00 

Poultry Feeding and Fatten- 
ing Fiske Orange-Judd 50 

Poultry Appliances Fiske Orange-Judd 50 

Principles and Practices of 

Poultry Culture Robinson Ginn 2.50 

Domestic Birds Robinson Ginn 1.35 

Equipment: The only equipment for this course that should ever be bought 
outright is: 

Ten pure bred fowls and one cock of an egg breed. 
Ten pure bred fowls and one cock of a meat breed. 
One incubator. 
One brooder. 
All the houses, coops, feed hoppers, watering devices, etc., should be made 
by the manual training class. 

It is not recommended that this equipment be bought the first year, for 
the reason that, in the case of new schools it will be much better to get some 
of the work well established which is of more importance and then add other 
equipment as rapidly as possible. 

This course in poultry is intended to cover, in a general way, the types 



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and breeds, the purposes of the several types, the feeding, care, raising, 
handling and marketing of fowls, and the production and marketing of eggs. 
One reason for placing this course in the first year was because of its 
general interest. This work also lends itself admirably to home project work, 
wherever the student can get permission from his parents to take charge 
of the poultry at home, he can actually follow the course in practice. 



MANUAL TRAINING. 

This course is to be practical in every detail. There is no text available 
that will meet the needs of this work. 

The equipment for this course should be the very first to be purchased by 
the school. The class in manual training should make all of the tables, 
specimen and apparatus cases, work benches, tool boxes, poultry appliances, 
a large part of the physics apparatus, practically all of the soils apparatus, 
many pieces of apparatus for the chemistry equipment and various other 
things too numerous to mention. It is hoped that a list of the apparatus that 
should be made by this class can be supplied with details for construction 
sometime within the coming year. 

A supply of well seasoned, dressed lumber should be obtained. 

Equipment for Work in Manual Training, 
Tools for General Use. 

1 hand saw, 9 points $1.65 

1 hand saw, 11 points 1.65 

1 steel framing square .75 

1 try square . . • .25 

1 bevel square .25 

1 Stanley spirit level .75 

1 claw hammer .60 

1 jack plane, 14 inches 2.65 

1 smooth plane, 8 inches 2.00 

1 block plane, 4 inches .75 

1 set of screw drivers .75 

1 set of firmer chisels (5, ^ to 1 inch) 3.50 

1 ratchet brace, 10 inch sweep 3.00 

1 set Irwin auger bits (12x1x16) 3.00 

1 set square shank drill bits for iron (8, %-% by 16ths) 1.00 

1 iron vise steels faced jaws 24 lbs 3.00 

1 screw for wood vise .25 

1 expansion bit, 1 — 2 in 1.50 

1 bench stop .25 

1 revolving head harness punch .75 

1 50-foot linen tape 3.00 

1 rule 5 feet folding .25 

1 set of compass saws .50 

1 caliper inside, outside .75 

1 divider .25 

1 mechanic's tool grinder 5.00 

1 grind stone with fixtures 1.00 

4 steel clamps, 6 inches 1.00 

1 counter sink .10 



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1 drawing knife $ .75 

1 marking gauge -25 

1 adjustable hack saw frame .60 

12 hack saw blades ."60 

1 machine hammer, 8 ounces .75 

1 oil stone, coarse and medium .75 

1 pair, 8 inch side cut pliers .60 

1 pair, 8 inch end. cut pliers .60 

1 pair 12 inch tinners snips 1.25 

1 saw set .75 

1 set steel "S" wrenches •. 1.50 

1 monkey wrench, 8 inch .25 

1 Stilson pipe wrench, 8 inch .75 

1 set assorted files and wood rasps 2.50 

1 spoke shave .25 

1 rivet setting punch .50 

1 cold chisel, \- 2 inch .15 

1 cold chisel, % inch .25 

1 drift punch .25 

1 set nail sets .45 

1 steel rivet set .25 

1 hatchet .75 

Total $54.90 

Individual Bench Set. 

1 hand saw, 9 points $1.65 

1 hand saw, 11 points 1.65 

1 try square .25 

1 framing square .75 

1 screw for wood vise .25 

1 smooth plane, 8 inch 2.00 

1 bench stop .15 

1 drawing knife .75 

1 marking gauge .25 

1 hatchet, 4 inch .75 

1 claw hammer .60 

1 folding rule, 5 feet .25 

$9.30 

*Starret combination square $4.00 

*Miter box 12.00 

*Set of stocks and dies from 1 16 to % U. S. Standard carriage 

thread 12.00 

*Drill attachment for iron 3.00 

*Breast drill 3.00 

*Soldering outfit, complete 6.00 

$40.00 

*Set blacksmith tools 35.00 



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DAIRYING. 

Title. Author. Publisher Price. 
Text: 

Milk and Its Products Wing Macmillan $1.50 

Testing Milk Van Slyke Orange- Judd 1.00 

References : 

Dairy Cattle and Milk Pro- 
duction Eckles Macmillan 1.60 

Testing Milk and Its Pro- 
ducts . Farrington & Woll . . . Stechert 1.25 

*The Business of Dairying Lane Orange-Judd 1.25 

Clean Milk Belcher Orange-Judd 1.00 

Equipment: 

4 cows $300.00 

1 cream separator ( 135 lb. ) 32.50 

1 Babcock tester (6 bottle) 9.00 

1 dozen milk test bottles, 10 per cent 1.25 

y-2, dozen cream test bottles, 50 per cent 1.50 

Pipettes : 

1 9 cc, 1 17.6 cc, 1 18 cc .60 

1 acid measure .15 

1 milk scales 3.00 

1 thermometer .75 

1 lactometer .25 

1 churn 4.00 

1 butter printer .90 

Assorted wash brushes 1.50 

Sulphuric acid, 1 gallon 60 

Butter ladles and packers, assorted 1.00 

Cream scales 10.00 

Milking pails 1.00 

Milk cans, etc 5.00 



Total $373.00 

A study of the breeds, types, feeding and care of dairy cattle; the produc- 
tion, testing, handling and marketing of milk and butter will be given in 
this course as comprehensively as possible to a class of this grade in the time 
allowed. 



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FARM ANIMALS. 

Title. Author. Publisher Price. 

Text: 

Farm Animals Hunt & Burkett Orange- Judd $1.50 

Stock Judging Craig Stechert 1.65 

References: 

Types and Breeds of Farm 

Animals Plumb Ginn 2.00 

Swine in America Coburn Orange- Judd 2.50 

Domesticated Animals and 

Plants Davenport Ginn 1.25 

The Horse Roberts Macmillan 1.25 

*A n i m a 1 Husbandry for 

Schools Harper Macmillan 1.50 

♦Beginnings in Animal 

Husbandry Plumb Webb 1.25 

*Manual of Farm Animals. Harper Macmillan 2.00 

Equipment: No equipment is necessary for this course. Animals of 
farmers in the community may be obtained for judging. 

It is intended that this course take up only a study of the breeds of farm 
animals; the use of the various types, and work in judging farm animals. 
The text suggested contains some chapters on feeding which should be omitted 
until the fourth year for a more intelligent understanding of this part of the 
work. 

BIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY. 

Title. Author. Publisher Price. 

Text: 

Animals and Man Kellog Henry Holt $1.25 

References : 

*Elementary Biology Peabody & Hunt Macmillan 1.25 

*Insects Chitendon Orange-Judd 1.50 

Equipment: 

*Insect nets. 

♦Collecting bottles. 

*Insect pins. 

*Potassium Cyanide. 

*Insect museum cases. 

This equipment may be bought as needed for collecting and preserving in- 
sects. The microscope suggested for the plant life work will also be needed 
in this work. 



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VEGETABLE GARDENING. 

Title. Author. Publisher. 

Text : 

Vegetable Gardening Watts Orange- Judd . 

References : 

Potato Fraser Orange-Judd . 

Tomato Tracy Orange-Judd . 

Bean Culture Seavey Orange-Judd . 

Celery Beattie Orange-Judd . 

Melon Troop Orange-Judd . 

Cabbage Allan Orange-Judd . 

Sweet Potato Fitz Orange-Judd . 

Spraying Crops Weed Orange-Judd . 

*Vegetable Gardening Green Webb 

*Gardening, Farming Corbitt Ginn 

Garden Making Bailey Macmillan . . . 



Price. 

$1.75 

.75 

.50 

.50 

.50 

.50 

.50 

.50 

.50 

1.00 

2.00 

1.50 



Equipment: Sash for cold frames. 

This course is intended to be a study of the soils adapted to vegetable 
growing, the fertilization, the management and care of the soil; the study of 
varieties of vegetables, methods of identifying and combating insect and 
plant diseases; the use and the marketing of vegetables. 



FIELD CROPS. 



Publisher. 



Title. Author. 

Text : 

Field Crops Wilson & Warburton 

References: 

Corn Bowman & Crosley . . . Stechert . . . 

Study of Corn Shoesmith Orange-Judd 

Myrick Orange-Judd 

Hunt Orange-Judd 

Hunt Orange-Judd 



Price. 



Tobacco Leaf 

Cereals in America 

Forage and Fiber Crops. 
Farm Grasses in United 
States 



Webb $1.50 



2.00 
.50 
2.00 
1.75 
1.75 



Spillman Orange-Judd .... 1.00 

Corn Crops Montgomery Macmillan 1.50 

Forage Crops Voorhees Macmillan 1.50 

Alfalfa Coburn Orange-Judd ... .50 

Southern Field Crops Duggar Macmillan 1.75 

Equipment: No special equipment. 

This course should take up in detail the soils, and fertilizers for each crop 
of any importance in the community with a study of diversification and crop 
management; the methods of identifying and combating attacks of insects 
and plant diseases, and the harvesting, uses, and marketing of the crops. A 
portion of the year should be devoted to the special crop which is of most 
importance in the community. 



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FRUIT CULTURE. 

Title. Author. Publisher. 

Text : 

Popular Fruit Growing Green V/ebb 

References: 

Principles of Fruit Growing Bailey Macmillan . . 

American Appla Orchard. . . Waugh Orange-Judd 

American Peach Orchard . . . Waugh Orange-Judd 

Harvesting, etc., Fruits. . . . Waugh Orange-Judd 

Thomas Orange-Judd 

Munsen Orange-Judd 



*American Fruit Culturist. 
* American Grape Culture.. 
The Pruning Book Bailey 

Equipment: 

6 pruning shears 

2 pruning saws 

1 tree pruner, 8 feet 

1 barrel spray pump, complete.. 
Insecticides and fungicides 



Macmillan 



Price. 
$1.00 

1.50 
1.00 
1.00 
1.00 
2.50 
2.00 
1.50 

$6.00 
2.00 
1.00 

25.00 



$34.00 

This course is intended to cover, in a general way, all of the common 
orchard fruits which may be grown in the section of the state in which the 
school is located. The planting, care, cultivation, fertilization of the orchard 
and the identification and eradication of insect pests and plant diseases which 
infest orchards, and a study of spraying apparatus, pruning, and the handling 
and marketing of fruit will each receive a good portion of the time devoted to 
the subject. 

SOILS AND FERTILIZERS. 



Title. 
Text: 

Soils and Fertilizers 

References: 

Soils and Fertilizers 

Soils 

"Farm Manures 

*Fertilizers and Crops 

Soils and Soil Fertility.... 

First Principles of Soil Fer- 
tility 

*Irrigation and Drainage.. 

Soils 

Soils and Crops 

*Soil Fertility and Perma- 
nent Agriculture 



Author. Publisher. Price. 

Snyder Macmillan $1.50 



King Macmillan . . 

Burkett Orange-Judd 

Thorne Orange-Judd 

Van Slyke Orange-Judd 

Whitson & Walster . . Webb 



1.50 
1.25 
1.50 
2.50 
1.25 



Vivian Orange-Judd .... 1.00 

King Macmillan 1.50 

Lyon & Fippin Macmillan 1.50 

Hunt & Burkett Orange-Judd 1.50 



Hopkins Ginn 



2.25 



Equipment: At present no laboratory equipment is suggested for the 
reason that there will be practically none that will need to be bought out- 
right. As soon as the course is outlined in detail a suggested list of apparatus 
and details for construction will be furnished. 

This course is intended to cover the following subjects: 



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The origin and classification of soils; soil water and its relation to soil 
fertility and crop production; availability and uses of plant food; the use of 
fertilizers and manures, drainage and soil management. 

FEEDS AND FEEDING. 

Title. Author. Publisher. Price. 

Text: 

Principles of Feeding Burkett Orange-Judd $1.50 

References: 

Farm Animals Hunt & Burkett Orange-Judd .... 1.50 

Profitable Stock Feeding. . . Smith ' Webb 1.50 

*Feeds and Feeding Henry ■ Stechert 2.25 

Equipment: No equipment necessary. 

The composition of feeds, the functions of fat, protein, starch, and ask 
in the milk and meat production, the computation of rations and practical 
experience in feeding the animals belonging to the school. 

FARM MACHINERY. 

Title. Author. Publisher. Price. 

Text: No suitable text has been found. 
References : 

Farm Machinery and Farm 
Motors Davidson & Chase Orange-Judd .... $2.00 

Agricultural Engineering. ..Davidson Webb 1.50 

Equipment: A set of blacksmith tools should be included in the equip- 
ment of this course. A gas engine which will be needed in the school for 
running the cream separator and various other purposes should be pur- 
chased as soon as possible. Other equipment can be supplied as the course 
develops. 

This course is intended to familiarize the student with the care and 
repairing of farm machinery, harness, etc. At present there has been so 
little work done of this kind in the high schools that the work will depend 
very much upon the initiative of the instructor. 

Minimum Equipment, First Yeah. 

Library ' . . . $100.00 

General Farm equipment 1,334.75 

Complete equipment for dairy 373.00 

Manual training equipment (general ) 54.90 

Manual training, (individual bench sets, 5, each $9.30) 46.50 

For course in Plant Life 30.00 

For course in Plant Culture 1.25 

Total $1,940.40 

Not Necessary First Year. 

Course in Fruit Culture $34.00 

Course in Poultry Raising 50.00 

Total $84.00 



Complete total $2,024.40 



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Addresses of Publishers Referred to in Book; Lists. 

Orange-Judd Company, 315-321 Fourth Ave., New York, N. Y. 

The Macmillan Co., 64-66 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. 

Webb Publishing Co., 55-79 East Tenth St., St. Paul, Minn. 

D. C. Heath & Co., 231-245 West 39th St., New York, N. Y. 

Henry Holt & Co., Publishers, 34 W. 33d St., New York, N. Y. 

Allyn & Bacon, 36 W. 37th St., New York. 

Several books are given as published by Stechert. (Where a book is pub- 
lished by some company from which possibly only that book would be bought 
it will be found much more satisfactory to buy all such miscellaneous books 
from G. E. Stechert & Co., 151-155 W. 25th St., New York. Any book published 
in America may be obtained from this company and in most cases at the 
same figure as if bought from the publisher.) 

The Bausch & Lomb Microscope outfit, No. "F-2," will possibly be the most 
desirable for this work. This is sold by Arthur H. Thomas Co., Philadelphia. 
A similar microscope and the one that is very highly recommended by 
biologists, sold by Ernst Letiz, 30 E. 18th St., New York, will cost about 
$30.00. 

The equipment for the courses in Fruit Culture, Vegetable Gardening, etc., 
may be obtained from Henry A. Dreer, Philadelphia, Pa. In buying the 
farm machinery, if the schools will take up the matter with the manufac- 
turers, many donations will, in all probability, be made and better prices 
may be obtained than from the local dealer. 



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